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Title: Lectures on Horsemanship
Wherein Is Explained Every Necessary Instruction for Both
Ladies and Gentlemen, in the Useful and Polite Art of
Riding, with Ease, Elegance, and Safety

Author: Unknown

Release Date: April 12, 2010 [EBook #31957]

Language: English

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LECTURES
ON
HORSEMANSHIP,

Wherein is Explained
EVERY
NECESSARY INSTRUCTION
FOR BOTH
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
In the Useful and Polite
ART OF RIDING,
WITH
EASE, ELEGANCE, AND SAFETY,

BY T. S.
Professor of Horsemanship.

_LONDON_:
1793.

LECTURE ON HORSEMANSHIP.

Address to the Audience.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.

Permit me to observe that the Horse is an animal, which, from the
earliest ages of the world, has been destined to the pleasure and
services of Man; the various and noble qualities with which nature has
endowed him sufficiently speaking the ends for which he was designed.

Mankind were not long before they were acquainted with them, and found
the means of applying them to the purposes for which they were given:
this is apparent from the Histories and traditions of almost all
nations, even from times the most remote; insomuch that many nations and
tribes, or colonies of people, who were entirely ignorant, or had but
very imperfect notions, of other improvements and arts of life; and even
at this day[3-*] are unacquainted with them, yet saw and understood the
generous properties of this creature in so strong a light as to treat
him with fondness a